Feb 19, 2018 | Essay, From the Chair
It is hard to write anything in the face of overwhelming grief after a public tragedy as others are burdened with mourning and loss. Perhaps there is some measure of comfort to be found in thinking about how art functions in such times, as both a balm and as a space...
Feb 12, 2018 | Essay, From the Chair
At this time of year, settled as we are into the deepest freeze, the landscape knit together into rectangles of pure white, the sonic quality of everyday life quiets remarkably toward silence. This observation comes as I have been talking to students about Art and...
Feb 5, 2018 | Essay, From the Chair
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. Japanese Proverb I think often about the teachers I have had; those that seemingly had little impact on my life and those that, to this day, have never faded from memory. The teachers that...
Jan 29, 2018 | Essay, From the Chair
When the right questions are asked about the conditions for producing art, of which the production of great art is a subtopic, there will no doubt have to be some discussion of the situational concomitants of intelligence and talent generally, not merely of artistic...
Dec 11, 2017 | Essay, From the Chair
I was attracted to art that was as transformative as possible; indeed, I thought this was what art was. You took life and turned it, by some charismatic, secret process, into something else: related to life, but stronger, more intense and, preferably, weirder. Julian...
Dec 4, 2017 | Essay, From the Chair
No longer do we accept the ‘sublimation model’ according to which ‘the function of art is to sublimate or transform experience, raising it from ordinary to extraordinary, from commonplace to unique, from low to high. Rosalind E. Krauss, October 56,...
